Panhandle Sheriffs are on a roll: No break for Spring Breakers

March 9, 2013|By Barbara Hijek, FloriDUH

These Panhandle Sheriffs sure mean business.

Sheriffs from Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay Counties held a joint news conference on Wednesday to lay down the law to druggies and Spring Breakers: “We don’t want college students coming in from other states without an understanding that it’s illegal to purchase or possess these substances in Florida,” said Okaloosa County Sheriff Ashley.

Since January 2012, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force has seized eight vehicles along with more than $625,000 and $2.9 million in drug related inventory.

Then these lawmen got on a roll with a gimmick designed to crush teen Spring Break spirit: The Sheriffs had a large construction roller publicly demolish $1,000,000 worth of seized drug paraphernalia ordered for destruction by the court.

But it looks like the Spring Breakers still want to rock and roll.

The very next day the Panama City News Herald reported that a 20-year-old Michigan college student died from an alcohol-related incident in Panama City Beach.